Thomson has spoken on several occasions about Google’s potentially anti-competitive practices. Last year he wrote a letter to the EU competition commissioner in which he accused the search giant of acting as a, “platform for piracy and the spread of malicious networks.”

“The shining vision of Google’s founders has been replaced by a cynical management,” he said at that time.

Thomson does believe Google’s attitude under CEO Sundar Pichai has change. He believes Pichai has fostered an environment that is listening in a way it didn’t under past leaders.

“The word I think of with Google at the moment is optimism,” Thomson said.

News Corp. publishes such well-known publications as the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, along with many other newspapers around the world.

Both companies spend millions of dollars per year lobbying for their own business desires.

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